Japanese Trade Compliance
Recently I discovered the blog “Global Trade Compliance: International Trade compliance news and update for Japan, US ,and other countries.” As a US-based trade compliance blogger I find it interesting to see the news from the Asia Pacific region. A lot of global trade news is focused on the US and EU, as well as India and China, so it’s nice to see another perspective.
Also interesting is the similar themes across global trade compliance enforcement. Seems like everyone trying to export technology to the frequently sanctioned countries (Iran, North Korea, etc) gets busted. Take this person, for example:
“According to various newspaper report, the president of small trade house in Tokyo, Toko Boeki, and the president of two other companies who cooperated with Toko Boeki were arrested in violation of Foreign Exchange and Foreign Trade Law (“FEFTL”) by attempting the export of magnetic measuring devices supposedly to North Korea via Myanmar and Malaysia.A magnetic measuring device is considered as dual-use item which can be used for development and manufacturing of missile. Any of news report don’t indicate the ECCN for this device, and reported as violation of Catch-all control. In Japanese classification, it is reported as Category 16 in Export Trade Control Order Appendix I, which covers almost all general industrial goods except food and wooden products. “
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Non US companies are allowed to incorporate US products into their own and ship it to Iran, Cuba etc according to the deminimis rule.